mike nason, open scholarship & publishing librarian | unb libraries
Its context and your place in it.
Evolutions in/of Scholarly Publishing
Publishing has changed dramatically in the last two decades. It is never going to go back to how it used to be.
There's no single route to OA. Your participation depends on your wants, needs, and requirements.
Untangling the Types of Open Access
From gold to green to diamond and other such alchemy.
The APC and Unpacking Your Options (coming soon)
Most of the time, you do not need to pay an APC to support open access.
Open Access Outside the Article (coming soon)
Discussing OA with monographs, reports, proceedings, and grey literature.
Examples (coming soon)
Suppositions and use cases.
Links, docs, and other bookmarkables.
Thanks in Advance
We are, all of us, too busy. Things will not "slow down soon". I appreciate your attention. Contact me if you have questions or need support. (mnason@unb.ca)
In the world of monographs (books), textbooks, or other publications, some authors get to make money! For their work! Imagine!
As a musician, this is a very cute idea to me.
Publishers take a cut for their service. Sure! And/or platforms do.
In the world of academic publishing (journals, in particular), the production of research is just part of the job.*
Authors aren't typically paid a portion of profits! Authors want and need to share their work to advance their careers.
Publishers take the whole cut.
5 companies publish more than 50 percent of research papers, study finds.” (CBC News, 2015)
I should note here that this is one of the most powerfully boring phrases you may ever see, but it was/remains a big deal.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read/
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read/
I suppose it is possible that you may feel OA is something of an imposition. I think it's important that we understand how we got here.
Now that you have a bit of a sense about how open access got started as a movement, let's talk about how OA has changed publishing.
OA has come a very long way. Preprint servers allow for expedient transfer of research and changed the ways some whole disciplines publish. Research data is more available than ever.
And mandates, like them or not, have provided public access to publicly funded research.
Bonus Round
This is a vital part of engaging with open access that doesn't always get discussed.
Your reason for choosing to publish open will have an impact on the methods or paths you take to do so.
This is the agency part.
Broadly speaking, you'll hear a handful of terms thrown around in this space. I'm going to focus on four of them, and then go into a little more detail.
They're listed from least problematic to most.
Doesn't Cost You Money to Publish
Does Cost You Money to Publish
Because OA has come down to money, it's useful to remember that types of open access are often tethered to the financial model of the publisher.
For Profit Publishing
Not for Profit Publishing
Diamond Open Access is the platonic ideal of OA. A Diamond OA journal has no publishing fees and no subscription fees. Instead, they have found some alternative funding model to support their operational costs.
Green OA is more of a method for providing access to a version of a work that was not published in an OA venue. It is also often referred to as self-archiving.
A journal wouldn't identify as "green". Instead, you would meet a mandate requirement or facilitate open access by self-archiving a version of the work that is not the final, version of record.
If you post a preprint to a preprint server, that's green OA.
If you post an accepted manuscript (the version of a work after peer review and before copyediting / layout), that's green OA.
If you publish in any venue where your work is OA and you don't have to pay money for that to happen, that's green OA.
Green OA is a bit of a compromise.
I've used the phrase a lot in this presentation. Self-archiving is when you take a version of your work and make it available in a repository (institutional or disciplinary).
Usually, this isn't the final version of record. It's typically the "accepted manuscript", which is the version after peer review but before copy editing.
Self-archiving is usually cost free, but even paid journals allow for it. The idea is not just facilitating OA in one location, but multiple. This increases access.
If you give me an accepted manuscript to self-archive in our institutional repository, this will meet your tri-agency OA requirements.
Gold OA is when you have to pay an APC to publish your work in a journal.
Gold OA journals are always free for users to read, and most of their funding for operations come from author processing charges.
PLOS is a good example of a Gold OA publisher.
Hybrid OA is increasingly common. These are journals that operate like traditional subscription journals that also offer the possibility paying an APC to facilitate immediate open access.
Hybrid OA is controversial, in particular, because these journals collect both subscription revenue and APC revenue. This is "double dipping".
Selecting for Open Access
gold-oa journal
unb has apc waiver
free
$
unb has apc discount
no apc support
$$
hybrid journal
unb has apc waiver
free
$$
unb has apc discount
no self-archiving
free
allows self-archiving
$
no apc support
require immediate oa
Selecting for Open Access
diamond oa
subscribe to open
free
UNB Libraries Supporting OA
Documentation and general support.
UNB Libraries APC Discounts
Guides to APC Discounts for UNB.
UNB Scholar Research Repository
Deposit your work! Self-archive!
UNB Scholar Deposit Form
Send us your publications.
SHERPA/RoMEO (publisher policies)
Check publisher policies.
UNB Libraries Publishing Support Form
We can help sort out policies/options.
Meeting Tri-Agency Requirements
My deck for ORS grant workshops.